Leid Stories - 08/01/13

Which Way Forward?: Changing Course in America Today marks the 50th-anniversary month of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. On Aug. 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people delivered a demand in person to the government to end political, social and economic apartheid in America. Two landmark pieces of legislation, the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965), grew out of the march. There is a general sense among Americans today that government is a failing, or failed, institution—either unwilling or unable to erase the same fissures that run deep into America’s landscape. Leid Stories asks the question: Which way forward?